Motion-clock



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Patented July 1, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE."

ALBERT PHELPS, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

MOTION-CLOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,282, dated July 1,1890.

Application filed November 18, 1889- Serial No. 330,668. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT PHELPS, of Ansonia, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a newImprovement in,Motion-Clocks; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a view in front elevation of a clock embodying my invention;Fig. 2, a similar detached view of the clock-movement with my improvedmechanism applied to it; Fig. 3, a view of the said movement in sideelevation; and Fig. 4 aplan view showing the two plates of the movement,the pallet and the arbor thereof, and the crank located at the outer endof the arbor which projects through the front plate of the movement.

My invention relates to an improvementin motion-clocksin which one ormore pictorial parts actuated by the clock-movement cooperate with apicture upon the dial, the object of this invention being to providesimple and effective mechanism for operating the pictorial parts inharmony with the beating of the clock-movement.

With these ends in view my invention consists in mechanism havingcertain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will behereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

As herein shown, the dial Aof the clock has displayed upon its face therepresentation of an old woman with a dog under each arm, the dial beingprovided with perforations B B, which respectively occupy the placeswhere the mouths of the dogs should be in the picture. Two pictorialparts C C, having their upper ends bent forward on a curve and coloredred, are located back of the dial, and respectively arranged so thattheir curved and colored upper ends will stand horizontally and in linewith the said openings B B, through which the said ends will be movedback and forth to give the effect to the dogs of constantly stickingtheir tongues out and then withdrawing them.

being projected through thefront frame-plate of the clock-movement,which may be of any approved construction. Under the describedconstruction the oscillation of the pallet-arbor, in the regular actionof the clock-movement, will be communicated through the cranks, thepitman connecting them, and through the horizontal shaft to the saidpictorial parts and impartto them an oscillating action in harmony withthe beating of the clock-movement.

If desired, the picture may be changed, so as to call forward onepictorial part, or it may bechanged to call for more of the said partsthan are herein shown. I would therefore have it understood that I donot limit myself to the exact pictorial or mechanical features hereinshown; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a motion-clock, the combination, with a dial provided with twoopenings, of two parts located back of the dial and respectivelyarranged to be reciprocated through the said openings therein, ahorizontal shaft to which the said parts are attached, a crank securedto the said shaft, a pitman connected with the said crank, and a crankhaving the upper end of the said pitman connected with it and seen redto the pallet-arbor of the clockmovement, whereby the oscillations ofthe said arbor are transmitted to the parts which are caused to playback and forth through the openings in the dial.

ALBERT PHELPS. \Vitnesses:

ARTHUR H. BARTHOLOMEW, FRANK M. WooDRUrr.

